Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5927-5931

  Lunt, Mark F ^a   Rigby, Matthew ^a   Ganesan, Anita L ^a   Manning, Alistair J ^b   Prinn, Ronald G ^c   O'Doherty, Simon ^a   Mühle, Jens ^d   Harth, Christina M ^d   Salameh, Peter K ^d   Arnold, Tim ^b   Weiss, Ray F ^d   Saito, Takuya ^e   Yokouchi, Yoko ^e   Krummel, Paul B ^f   Steele, L Paul ^f   Fraser, Paul J ^f   Li, Shanlan ^g   Park, Sunyoung ^g   Reimann, Stefan ^h   Vollmer, Martin K ^h   Lunder, Chris ⁱ   Hermansen, Ove ⁱ   Schmidbauer, Norbert ⁱ   Maione, Michela ^j,k   Arduini, Jgor ^j,k   Young, Dickon ^a   Simmonds, Peter G ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^g Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^h SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^j UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^k CINFAI   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Climate change; Halocarbons; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; HFC 125; HFC 143A; HFC 152A; NORFLURANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EXHAUST GAS; FREEZING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84929191607     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420247112     Document Type: Article

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